What are your best AD(H)D hacks/copes/tricks?
What are your best AD(H)D hacks/copes/tricks?
Using Siri's announce notifications is super helpful to me. Discuss :)
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- Make sure I eat in the morning. Also helps with my depression.
- Making a physical SCRUM (like) board for managing tasks along with Trello.
- Alarms alarms alarms alarms, all with labels.
- Calendar entries with alarms for all bills due (and other importants).
- Paying what bills I can as far in advance as I can. If I know I'll have it for a year, pay for it all up front for a year. Makes everything so much easier.
- Making a paper shopping/task list and putting it in my pocket before I go ashore.
- Sticking to the shopping list once I'm at the shoppes.
- Making sure I go to bed each night clean & showered (depression).
- Sticking to the shopping list once I'm at the shoppes.
Ha! Oh if only. My wife is understandably skeptical that I can go anywhere without buying more than intended/needed.
I do physical kanban and take the wet erase magnets that have the tasks written on them when I do the task. No more "why did I come into this room?"
I'm interested in your approach to SCRUM. I've known that it's used as a framework for teams, but never for personal use. Do you mind describing how you implement it?
It's a loose adaptation.
Most importantly for me is to have an overview of everything, then secondly do not allow myself to become overwhelmed by the everything overview. If I break everything down to individual steps, then all I need to look at each day are the steps, not this giant mountain of shit.
- 1st I identify the/an End Goal. Then work myself backwards
- Identify 'all' the major 'Milestones' that need to be met.
- Then I break the milestones down to individual 'Jobs'.
- Then I break down each job to it's individual 'Tasks'.
I have header columns created out of the Milestones, Then a separate set of columns for the Jobs under the Milestones with each job broke out into its Tasks.
Using cutdown colored Post-it notes and colored Sharpies allowed me to see at a glance what's what
- Yellow is general
- Blue is something I need hands on OR something I need to learn
- Green is money or assets (through barter / trade) coming in
- Hot pink is money going out / bill due
- ETC ETC ETC
Every night I would check the board and then peal off individual tasks out of their columns and put them into the TODAY column. So the next day, those items were the only thing I was concerned about and the only things I would 'judge myself against '. Items stayed in the Today column until they were completed, or ran into complications that required a different approach.
Each time an anything was done, it got stuck in the completed column.
Here is a short, badly shot, terribly narrated video of the largest one of these I built. For context I was moving away from normal life, purchasing a small sailboat, and moving aboard full-time. Literally and figuratively an entire and complete change of lifestyle, location and skillsets.
From zero $, in fact in the hole several thousand, in an apartment in Seattle to a small boat in Miami, including car, in just under 3 years.
If you would ever like to discuss this more or run into problems setting one up for yourself, please find me on the socials and I would be more than happy to help you anyway I can.
I'm writing this all out on the can, so I might have missed something or glossed over. I apologize.
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